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Askli

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No-code support chatbots trained on your own documents

no code chatbotknowledge base syncwhatsapp integrationhuman handofffunction callingFreemium · from $49/mo

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Web · API · Slack app
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Pricing

Pricing model
Freemium
Paid options from
$49/mo
Billing
Monthly

Free gives 200 message credits a month, 1 agent, 1 datastore and 20,000 words of storage, with agents and datastores deleted after 14 days of inactivity; Growth $49/mo (20,000 credits, 2 agents, 10 seats), Pro $99/mo (40,000 credits, 5 agents, 25 seats) and Enterprise $499/mo (400,000 credits, 100 agents, 200 seats). Yearly billing is advertised at 20% off.

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Overview

About Askli

Askli, which operated as Chaindesk until its rebrand, builds support agents from content pulled out of Notion, Google Drive, WordPress, YouTube and plain URLs, re-syncing automatically when a source changes. One agent can be published as a site widget and into WhatsApp, Slack, Telegram, Messenger and Facebook, backed by a shared inbox for human handoff. Function calling lets an agent call your own endpoints mid-conversation, and conversational forms collect structured data inside the chat.

Platforms
Web · API · Slack app
API
Yes
Last verified
Oct 16, 2026

Verified sources

  • Askli plans: Free $0 with 200 gpt-4o-mini credits, 1 agent, 1 datastore, 20,000 words; Growth $49/mo, Pro $99/mo, Enterprise $499/mo; 'With yearly billing, you save 20%'; 'Agents and Datastores get deleted after 14 days of inactivity on the free plan' (15 October 2026)chaindesk.ai ↗
  • Home page branded Askli with '© Askli' footer and 'Founded in France'; sources include files, Notion, Google Drive, Zendesk and public URLs; channels include embeddable widgets, WhatsApp, Slack and Telegram plus Crisp, Zapier, WordPress and Shopify; shared inbox with takeover and assignment; agents 'call custom API endpoints when needed'; auto-retrain on data updates (15 October 2026)chaindesk.ai ↗
  • Company based in Paris, France, founded 2023pitchbook.com ↗
Fact check

Is Askli legit?

We don’t label tools safe or unsafe. Below are the records we checked ourselves, each with the date we read it.

Domain registered
Jun 25, 2023 (3 years ago)Registry record (RDAP), registrar NameCheap, Inc., looked up Sep 18, 2026
TLS certificate
Issued by Google Trust Services, valid until Dec 31, 2026Seen in our own connection to the site on Oct 16, 2026
Last checked
Oct 16, 2026The site answered
On the market since
2023The vendor's own material, read by us
Operated by
Askli, FranceOur research, card verified Oct 15, 2026

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Editorial verdict

Pros & cons of Askli

high confidence

A sensible mid-market pick when you need one bot answering on WhatsApp and your website from the same knowledge base. The free tier is a demo that quietly deletes your work if you step away for two weeks.

Pros

  • Unusually broad channel coverage including WhatsApp, Telegram and Messenger
  • Auto-sync removes manual retraining when source documents change
  • Function calling can hit your own API endpoints during a conversation
  • Shared inbox with human handoff is part of the product, not an add-on

Cons

  • The $49 to $99 step mostly buys credits rather than new capability
  • Free plan is restricted to a small model and 200 messages a month
  • Free agents and datastores are deleted after 14 days of inactivity
  • The Chaindesk-to-Askli rebrand left domain, docs and third-party listings inconsistent

Best for

  • Small support teams deflecting repetitive product questions
  • Businesses whose customers actually live on WhatsApp or Telegram
  • Documentation that changes often and needs automatic re-ingestion

Not for

  • High-volume support where 20,000 monthly credits disappear fast
  • Teams wanting a full ticketing system rather than a bot layer

Watch out: On the free tier, agents and datastores are deleted after 14 days idle, so a paused pilot loses its ingested training data.

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